The drive A drives the minute drum attached to shaft B by means of a gear ratio (Fig. The subject of the invention is a clock in which the hour and minute numbers appear put together on metal plates in two halves, without this being recognizable at some distance. Patented in the German Empire on February 28, 1890 Luckily, German to English translates relatively easily.Ĭlock with numbers changing by falling double-sided numbered tablets. I have also translated the German into English (of course thanks to German OCR software and Google. Who knew?!įor more history - see the article: The First Flip Clockīelow is an image that I combined and cleaned up from the German Patent ( see pdf of original on this site). So the inventor of the flip clock, we can proudly say, was the incredibly prolific inventor (he has other interesting inventions beyond clocks and watches), Austrian born and German resident, Josef Pallweber. But more excitingly, IWC redesigned and produced a Pallweber inspired Jump Hour and Jump Minute watch (these watches range in price from about $30,000 to $50,000 new and were released in very limited quantities). One of these was a Pallweber Jump Number pocket watch. The Pallweber Name came back to prominence when in 2018 the IWC (International Watch Company) of Switzerland release several heritage watches to commemorate their 150 year anniversary. (IWC stand for: International Watch Company, Schaffhausen, Switzerland). They were produced by IWC from 1885-1887 (as well by by other watch makers) and are considered to be among the most famous of IWC pocket watches. Josef Pallweber also invented the world's first digital clock (a rolling plate affair) and the world's first digital watch.īy no later than 1884 the world's first digital pocket watches were created using a Pallweber (jump number) design. These clocks were very ornate, as was the practice of the Lenzkirch clock makers, and interestingly enough - the first flip clock was a pendulum clock. Using the Pallweber design, The German Lenzkirch Clock Factory (Aktiengesellschaft für Uhrenfabrikation Lenzkirch) crafted the world's first flip clock in 1894. Pallweber's patent was first described to the public in the Decemissue of The German Journal for Clock-Makers (Deutsche Uhrmacher Zeitung) and the production announced in the journal exactly 3 years later in 1893. 54093 on Octofor his "Uhr mit Zahlenwechsel durch Herabfallen doppelseitig bezifferter Täfelchen" (Clock with numbers changing by falling double-sided numbered tablets. Josef Pallweber was issued German patent No. The first flip clock was conceived by Austrian inventor and engineer Josef Pallweber in 1890 and produced in Lenzkirch, Germany by the world-renowned Lenzkirch Clock Factory between 1893-1894. And this clock was a true horizontally flipping flip clock - lost to history evidently - but not any more. Almost Ten Years before the Plato Clock was patented in the United States. Name of Manufacturer: Lenzkirch Clock Factory The story is much more interesting and more cool than you may know. How can it be that I've been messing around with flip clocks about 10 years (7 years pretty heavily) and I have just now re-discovered the history the world's first flip clock?!
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